Sounds like the dpi is not set right in KDE... This was a very common issue with Intel graphics chipsets with older versions of Kubuntu... I think it's possible to edit the KDE configs manually with nano or view... Check the Ubuntu forums, or if someone else here can jump in, on fixing the dpi settings for Kubuntu for the version that your Dianemo installation's using...

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Hmmm,... Don't know how the KDE desktop components of LinuxMCE are configured,... But it's possible that the desktop KDE, and what LinuxMCE uses are stored in two different places,... In other words, it's possible that the KDE screens you are seeing is something like a switch user as opposed to just loading the previously suppressed full desktop with the same user authority that LinuxMCE is running at... where it would be using the same KDE settings, in desktop and normal modes.

Of course, the alternative is that the Orbiter setups are using the wrong DPI or font size for the stuff that's not pre-rendered. But Dianemo diverges from a normal LinuxMCE, doing something custom on the UI front, doesn't it??

Keep in mind that Ubuntu & Kubuntu are different in the font display arena. Earlier versions of Kubuntu had trouble with Intel graphics chips, while the Gnome based Ubuntu of the same version did just fine. There was something about the way KDE did its font rendering as it related to i915 chipset family compatibility.

If you are saying that a normal Ubuntu (Gnome-based) installation differs from a KDE installation of the same version, then that is expected. It was only KDE, and I think XFCE that were plagued by this problem. Gnome handled the Intel graphics chipsets fine.

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So it was the DPI issue... That's what I thought. But I was thinking it was wrong in KDE settings... XFCE has settings to change it in it's configs,... I only recently started using KDE again, after 5-6 yrs. with Gnome...

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It's actually fairly common. It started showing up in early KDE 4 implementations in Kubuntu, and one of the main reasons I dumped KDE for Gnome,... That and the lack of the full KDE 3.5 feature set in KDE 4.0... Now that Gnome has crapped the bed, it's looking as though I'll be coming back home to KDE as my DE for the foreseeable future...

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It's actually fairly common. It started showing up in early KDE 4 implementations in Kubuntu, and one of the main reasons I dumped KDE for Gnome,... That and the lack of the full KDE 3.5 feature set in KDE 4.0... Now that Gnome has crapped the bed, it's looking as though I'll be coming back home to KDE as my DE for the foreseeable future...

What's wrong with Gnome? I'm using it all the time. I'm even getting used to Unity (the 2D flavour) now.

So I'm not using Gnome 3 then, since I do have icons on my desktop. What's an "activities" menu mode? Is he talking about the "Gnome shell" bit of Gnome 3? Because I'm not using that. I'm using just the GTK 3 stuff, when apps are linked to it, and it seems to be working as well as GTK 2 (that is: not extremely well yet). I'm on either Unity 2D or Gnome Panel, depending on the phase of the moon, not Gnome shell. And my Unity 2D experience is similar to Gnome panel, except for the task bar - which doesn't bother me. Looks like I'm using all the good bits of Gnome 3 and none of the bad bits? Is that it? I'm on Unity 2D right now because it moves all the menu bars into the top panel for maximized windows, so except for the top bar, the entire screen is MINE, ALL MINE

We're talking about apples and oranges here, aren't we? Just drop the screwy Gnome shell and use something sane if you don't like it. GTK will be there for you whatever you choose to use. Even if you drop compiz/metacity for xfwm4 (like I do when those first two decide to slow down), GTK will STILL be there. I'm pretty sure Unity 2D won't mind the new window manager. If you want KDE, well... unless you use a Qt app, you STILL have GTK tailgating you, even though you're not running Gnome GTK is just stupid at rendering - since forever - even before, and during the time when Linus dropped KDE for Gnome.